2025 World Snooker Championship

The 2025 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2025 Cazoo World Snooker Championship) is an upcoming professional snooker tournament to be held from 19 April to 5 May 2025. It will be the 49th consecutive edition of the World Snooker Championship to be held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.

Kyren Wilson will be the defending champion, having defeated Jak Jones in the 2024 final.

Background


The final of the first World Snooker Championship took place in 1927 at Camkin's Hall in Birmingham, England, and was won by Joe Davis. Staged annually until 1940, the tournament was not held from 194145 due to World War II and went into decline in the post-war era; the 1952 event was contested by only two players and was replaced by the World Professional Match-play Championship, which was also discontinued in 1957. Joe Davis won the first 15 World Championships, held from 1927 to 1946, and is the only undefeated player in the tournament's history.

Revived on a challenge basis in 1964, the World Championship reverted to an annual knockout tournament in 1969, which marked the beginning of the championship's "modern era". The 1977 tournament was the first staged at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, where it has remained since. Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan are the most successful players in the World Championship's modern era, each having won the title seven times. Hendry is the tournament's youngest winner, having captured his first title in 1990, aged. O'Sullivan is the oldest winner, having secured his seventh title in 2022, aged.

The 2025 event (officially the 2025 Cazoo World Snooker Championship) will be organised by the World Snooker Tour and sponsored for the third time by car retailer Cazoo. It will mark the 49th consecutive year that the tournament has been held at the Crucible, and the 57th successive year that the World Championship had been contested through the modern knockout format. Kyren Wilson will be the defending champion, having defeated Jak Jones 1814 in the 2024 final to win his first world title.